Cosmic Teams
Cosmic Teams was the name of a series of trading cards distributed in March, 1993 by Skybox. There were 150 cards and 6 holograms in the set, plus 12 promo cards.
Description
The Cosmic Teams set was made up of several "Team Triptychs" of various DC teams, and individual "DC Flashback" character cards from the team, all with a single distinctive color border to denote the team. On the back of the team cards was a paragraph of the team's history (in three parts) and a key to the characters. On the back of the character card was another picture of the character in a box called "DC Flashback!", a paragraph of the character's history, his or her real name, and first appearance.
The promo cards have the same artwork on the front as the regular card but on the back was the Cosmic Teams logo and promotional text. Each promo card had the same back.
The set contains original art, typically by the artist of the then-currently published book.
Legion Cards
Card | Title | Description | art credit(s) |
17 | L.E.G.I.O.N. | Team Triptych card 2 | Barry Kitson, Robin Smith |
19 | Legionnaires | Team Triptych card 1 | Chris Sprouse, Karl Story |
20 | Legionnaires | Team Triptych card 2 | Chris Sprouse, Karl Story |
21 | Legionnaires | Team Triptych card 3 | Chris Sprouse, Karl Story |
73 | Phase | Barry Kitson, Robin Smith | |
82 | Cosmic Boy | Chris Sprouse, Karl Story | |
83 | Saturn Girl | Chris Sprouse, Karl Story | |
84 | Live Wire | Chris Sprouse, Karl Story | |
85 | Apparition | Adam Hughes | |
86 | Triad | Ty Templeton | |
87 | Chameleon | Chris Sprouse, Karl Story | |
88 | Invisible Kid | Chris Sprouse, Karl Story | |
89 | Leviathan | Chris Sprouse, Karl Story | |
90 | Shrinking Violet | Adam Hughes | |
91 | Inferno | Chris Sprouse, Karl Story | |
92 | Andromeda | Adam Hughes | |
93 | Brainiac 5 | Jason Pearson, Karl Story | |
94 | Ultra Boy | Chris Sprouse, Karl Story | |
95 | Matter-Eater Lad | Ty Templeton | |
96 | Alchemist | Jason Pearson, Karl Story | |
97 | Gossamer | Adam Hughes | |
98 | Ferro | Chris Sprouse, Karl Story | |
99 | Computo | Ty Templeton | |
100 | Dragonmage | Jason Pearson, Karl Story | |
101 | Catspaw | Jason Pearson, Karl Story | |
102 | Kid Quantum | Jason Pearson, Karl Story | |
147 | Timber Wolf | Joe Phillips, Al Gordon | |
148 | Valor | M. D. Bright, Al Gordon | |
00 | Dragonmage | promo back | Jason Pearson, Karl Story |
000 | Catspaw | promo back | Jason Pearson, Karl Story |
0000 | Computo | promo back | Ty Templeton |
P1 | Apparition | promo back | Adam Hughes |
- The center card of the L.E.G.I.O.N. triptych (cards 16, 17, and 18) showed Phase, who at this point in continuity was Phantom Girl, time-tossed back to the 20th century by Glorith.
- The Legionnaires triptych and subset depict the SW6 Batch appearing in the Glorithverse-era Legionnaires book.
- Timber Wolf and Valor were two characters that had recently been newly (re)-introduced to the 20th century and were included in the "New Breed" subset of characters. The "New Breed" characters were not shown on any triptych cards and were never in a group by that name.
- The Dragonmage card was a giveaway that was packaged with "Wizard" magazine #19. The Catspaw card was a giveaway packaged with the "Comics Buyer's Guide Price Guide" for March/April 1993. The Computo card was included with each copy of "Legionnaires" #1. The Apparition card was given away at comic conventions in 1993.